Summary

In chapter 3 of part 1, Bruce has dinner in a familiar section of the hotel that has been transformed into an elegant restaurant. Bruce feels the breeze come down from the mountain and it brings to mind nights lying out on the grass in Joe Mulder's backyard. As he eats, Bruce thinks of his early years in Salt Lake City. Bruce had been an outcast in school, too small and too smart, always picked on by the athletes he thought of as big, dumb apes. In chapter 4 of part 1, Bruce recalls a Latin teacher who once expressed the wish to have a model of a Roman castra whenever the class read Caesar's Gallic Wars. Bruce decided to get some clay from a slough outside of town and make her one. Bruce goes to the slough to gather the clay in his lunch box, getting the sticky mud...